All events on Thursday June 12
Previous day|Next day
- Music: Rock/Pop
-
Mammatus
-
Thursday June 12 (8pm) @ 12 Galaxies
-
Intimidating in their wizard garb, Mammatus earned cred in freak-out psych circles opening for Acid Mothers Temple and playing music inspired by '70s basement fascinations... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
-
Citizen Fish
-
Thursday June 12 (9pm) @ Bottom of the Hill
-
The Subhumans perfectly embodied the raw, inclusive vitality of early 1980s UK anarcho-punk. When the group broke up, most of the members moved on to... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
-
Singer
-
Thursday June 12 (8pm) @ Rickshaw Stop
-
Tonight's a double bill for connoisseurs of damaged guitar rock. Battles beat Singer to the punch as the first post-rock supergroup, but where Battles' intellectual... View details »
- Reading
-
Chris Carlsson
-
Thursday June 12 (7pm) @ City Lights
-
One of the mavericks who helped to launch the Critical Mass bike demonstrations, Chris Carlsson is in a unique position to show how outlaw technologies... View details »
- Film: Documentary
-
Trembling Before G-d
-
Thursday June 12 (7:30pm) @ JCC East Bay
-
After debuting on the festival circuit in 2001, Sandi Simcha DuBowski's compassionate documentary about the lives of gay and lesbian Hasidic and Orthodox Jews started... View details »
- Film
-
Bitter Pills
-
Thursday June 12 (7:30pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
More times »
-
Michael Haneke's 2007 English-language remake of his notorious Funny Games (1997) hit US theaters with the unexpected wallop of a hard slap in the face.... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
-
Tony Joe White
-
Thursday June 12 (9pm) @ Cafe du Nord
-
As with many American originals, Louisiana singer and swamp-rock king Tony Joe White is better known in Europe than in the States. White's journeyman career... View details »
- Art
-
A Complicated Dominion
-
Thursday June 12 (noon–5pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
More times »
-
When 19th-century wildlife artist John James Audubon cataloged the birds of North America, he painted the creatures in pristine environments. With a nod to this... View details »
- More Flavor: Benefit
-
Headlands Benefit Auction
-
Thursday June 12 (6pm) @ Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason Center
-
Housed at Fort Barry's scenic coastal location since the '80s, the Headlands Center for the Arts nurtures emerging and veteran artists with residency programs and... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Art
-
Tim Lee
-
Thursday June 12 (11am–7pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
More times »
-
Although it's tempting to dismiss Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee's use of comedy-as-conceptual-device as lacking in depth or social concern, to mistake his work for a... View details »
- Art
-
The Way That We Rhyme
-
Thursday June 12 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
More times »
-
American culture always seems poised to pronounce feminism down for the count, when it clearly still has plenty of fighting to do. To that end,... View details »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
-
2nd Skin
-
Thursday June 12 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium
More times »
-
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing. Materials include everything from... View details »
- Art: Photography
-
After the Revolution
-
Thursday June 12 (8am–8pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
More times »
-
Between Azar Nafisi's memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran and Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel (and now animated feature) Persepolis, post-revolutionary autobiography has become the privileged site... View details »
- Art
-
Quarter Century
-
Thursday June 12 (10am–7pm) @ Creativity Explored
More times »
-
Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th year, the nonprofit studio... View details »
- Film
-
Berlin Alexanderplatz
-
Thursday June 12 (6:30pm) @ SFMOMA
More times »
-
As a New German Cinema progenitor obsessed with stylish reconstructions of his country's troubled 20th-century history, R.W. Fassbinder had a natural interest in Alfred Döblin's... View details »
- Art
-
Paul Sietsema
-
Thursday June 12 (11am–8:45pm) @ SFMOMA
More times »
-
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles several media within a... View details »
- Art
-
Portals
-
Thursday June 12 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects
More times »
-
This trio of artists transforms one-dimensional planes of paper into doorways that lead to strange universes. Armed with an X-Acto knife, Jen Stark carves stacks... View details »
- Art
-
Karla Wozniak
-
Thursday June 12 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Gregory Lind Gallery
More times »
-
Karla Wozniak's exhibition of new paintings takes a shot at the endless string of strip malls and billboards that lines nearly every roadside in America.... View details »
- Art
-
American Symbols
-
Thursday June 12 (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
More times »
-
Recognized worldwide as a cultural symbol, the American flag is an object that elicits many personal and political emotions and interpretations. Highlighting these many points... View details »
- Art
-
Suzanne Husky
-
Thursday June 12 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base
More times »
-
Suzanne Husky's installations resemble playrooms where the dolls have broken loose. But the miniature worlds she creates, rife with greed and environmental angst, aren't always... View details »
- Art
-
Sarah Wagner
-
Thursday June 12 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery
More times »
-
Sarah Wagner turns out delicate textile sculptures that resemble tangled roots and vines. Her faux-plant shapes sprout from the gallery's cement floors and plaster walls,... View details »
- Art
-
Adam5100
-
Thursday June 12 (11am–6pm) @ Rowan Morrison
More times »
-
The graffiti artist Adam5100 may have started out bombing derelict sections of Albuquerque, New Mexico, but he's brushed up on his painting and printmaking at... View details »
- Art: Photography
-
Trevor Paglen
-
Thursday June 12 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum
More times »
-
Trevor Paglen photographs what we can't see — and what the government doesn't want us to see. Using a battery of technologically sophisticated methods on... View details »
- Film
-
Chicago 10
-
Thursday June 12 (7:15 & 9:25pm) @ Red Vic
More times »
-
Abbie Hoffman stated the obvious when he titled his autobiography Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture. The volatile, vocal (and later diagnosed bipolar) prankster... View details »
- Art
-
William T. Wiley
-
Thursday June 12 (10am–6pm) @ Electric Works
More times »
-
Pinball machines have largely been relegated to the scrap yard of nostalgia, but that hasn't stopped William T. Wiley from resurrecting a 1964 game called... View details »
- Art
-
Christian Marclay
-
Thursday June 12 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Fraenkel Gallery
More times »
-
Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in used record shops. He's... View details »
- Art
-
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
-
Thursday June 12 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ John Berggruen Gallery
More times »
-
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell's concurrent exhibitions at John Berggruen Gallery have sympathetic interests: each artist makes work that quietly reinterprets quintessentially American scenes. Brown... View details »
- Art
-
Leigh Wells
-
Thursday June 12 (9am–5pm) @ Gallery 16
More times »
-
Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little birds, rococo flourishes, arabesques,... View details »
- Art
-
Improbable\Unlikely
-
Thursday June 12 (1–5pm) @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery
More times »
-
David M. Stein's first solo show of improbable objects should provoke double takes, plus a chuckle or two. In The Unlikely Library, shelves of books... View details »
- Art
-
365
-
Thursday June 12 @ 111 Minna Gallery
More times »
-
... m>365 showcases 14 of the country's best contemporary abstract artists working in every style, from nouveau-surrealist to neo-expressionist. The visual experience is only heightened... View details »
- Art
-
Hopeless and Otherwise
-
Thursday June 12 (10am–6pm) @ Southern Exposure
More times »
-
With elections around the corner, many Americans are dreaming of change, but this group of artists remains skeptical, exploring moments of unrest in US history... View details »
- Art
-
Sean Talley
-
Thursday June 12 (noon–6pm) @ Jancar Jones Gallery
More times »
-
Sean Talley's new series of silkscreen prints at Jancar Jones Gallery contains understated, insightful contrasts. Richly colored, sparse populations of shapes commingle on a flat,... View details »
- Art
-
Alicia McCarthy
-
Thursday June 12 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery
More times »
-
Mission School alum Alicia McCarthy has been cleaning out her closet — at least that's the impression one gets from this motley collection of her... View details »
